Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
Cures. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
Cures, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
Cures in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
Cures you have here. The definition of the word
Cures will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
Cures, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Proper noun
Cures
- plural of Cure
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Sabine, perhaps related to curīs (“spear”), itself possibly from Proto-Italic *kusi- and related to the root of cuspis (“sharp point”).[1]
Proper noun
Curēs m pl (genitive Curium); third declension
- the ancient chief town of the Sabines
- (figurative) the inhabitants of Cures
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “Cures”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Cures”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Cures in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Cures in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cuspis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 159